Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The heart is a place of secrets.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.